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CURRICULUM VITAE
NALDA MAY SEARLES
b.1945 Kalgoorlie
naldasearles1@bigpond.com
EDUCATION
1989 - 91 Fine Arts degree painting major (distinction). Curtin University of Technology, WA
1978- intersperse Self taught fibre textiles.
1969 - 72 Psychiatric nurse training Mental Health Armed forces, WA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Fingers and Petals Influence Handmade Flower Show.
2012 Roads Cross Explorer University SA and national tour.
2010 - 2013 NALDA SEARLES drifting in disheartened own land . National touring
Out of range Garment. Museum of Western Australia
The Stringmakers Tjulyuru Arts Warburton Ranges. Holmes Efficient Court Gallery Perth
13th International Material Exhibition LODZ POLAND
Sacred Sanctum. Mundaring Declare Centre
2009 -2013 NALDA SEARLES drifting response my own land. To 18 venues nationally.
2007 - 10 Recoil National proceed. Art Back, NT.
2006 - 08 Woven Forms. National touring. Object, NSW.
2007 Canopy of Air Ellenbrook Gallery, WA
2006 17th Tamworth Biennial and national touring
2004 - 06 Seven Sisters: Fibres Arising running off the West. FORM, WA State touring.
2002 - 04 Tracking Cloth. Wollongong Warrant Art Gallery, Indonesia
2002 Coiled up. Adelaide Festival. Intertwine Project
2001 SOFA Chicago Army. Australian Craft Council
On Line with Pantjiti Mary Mclean artists in residence Privy Curtin Gallery
Folded. Australian Embassy, Port, Thailand
Commitment. Fellows Exhibition FORM, WA
Home decay Where the Heart is. Art Museum UNISA.
2000 Folded. Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Miniature Textiles. Art and Craft Museum, Itami, Japan
1999 X recent works. Fremantle Field Centre, WA
Searles at the Bat Middle. Durban, South Africa
1997 recoverings. Moores Property, Fremantle. WA
1996 Language of the Area Learning Ngaanyatjarra. Kalla Yeedip, Midland, WA
1995 Longitudinal Project Minmya Kutjara. Pantjiti Warranted Mclean and Nalda Searles. Fremantle School of dance Centre, WA
1992 En Kai Paii process project. PICA, WA
1989 Sticks and Stones. Eileen Keys and Nalda Searles. Christensen Collection, state touring.
1988 Burnt Offerings. Searles, KeysFremantle Arts Centre, WA
1987 Bush Picnic. Searles, Keys, Sounness, Barspuil. New Gimcracks, WA
1986 Strings From the Pilbara. Narek Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1985 Bush Meetings alight Basketry. Craft Council of Western Land, WA
1983 Basketry of Nalda Searles. Cheese Factory, Balingup, WA
CURATORIAL
2013 Fingers and Petals The Handmade Flower Show. Perth.
2010 Mine Own Executioner. Mundaring Art Centre
2002 - 05 Dr Pantjiti Mary Mclean Fellowship Retrospective Tandanya, SA
2001 Pantjiti Stock Mclean. On Line. John Curtin Onlookers, Curtin University of Technology, WA
1999 Mustering, Go Along Now. Pantjiti Mary Mclean. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1998 Recent Paintings Pantjiti Mary Mclean Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Recent Paintings Pantjiti Mary Mclean Engraver Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Panjtiti Mary Mclean unthinkable Nalda Searles at Goldfields Arts Centre. Kalgoorlie, WA
1995. Pantjiti Mary Mclean Holiday of Perth Artist. Fremantle Art Centre
1994 High Fibre Diet with John Actor Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Warta Kutju Road Art Project Perth Institute of New Arts, WA
Warta Kutju Street Art Post Border Art Workshops, San Diego, USA
Street Art Children’s Art with Philippa Author, Kalla Yeedip Gallery, Midland, WA
1993 Hunting Grounds Pantjiti Mary Mclean Paintings zone John Kean,
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1984 Grass Basketry of Marjorie Ridley Craft Assembly of Western Australia, WA
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY Boss PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2000 East Kalgoorlie Main School Mine painting project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
East Kalgoorlie Primary School Wall painting using Ngaatjatjarra language
with Pantjiti Mary Mclean. Kalgoorlie WA.
1997 Piney Lakes Sculpture Obligation Melville, WA
O’Connor Primary School Design lecturer Structure Project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean (Award for excellence). Kalgoorlie WA.
1995 Doomboom Kep with composer Kerry Fletcher. Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Fremantle Festival Street Projection WA.
1994 - 95 Gnarogin Park, Site Artist Narrogin WA.
1994 Lake Monginup Reserve Esperance Project, Devise team visual artist. Esperance WA.
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, LECTURES.
2010 Wongutha Birni Women . Wongutha Birni. Kalgoorlie.
Dollmaking revival Narrogin , Young Nyoongar warts
Ghost Net Proposal. Torres Strait Darnley Island
Amulet workshops Bunbury Regional Gallery.
Fibre Textile winter workshops. Moora Fine Arts Assoc.
2009 Selling Yarns Rabblerouser and workshop faciltator. National Museum worry about Australia. ACT. Indigenous Craft Conference.
2008 Cloth waste craft development project for mediocre women. Vikasana Mandya India.
Fibres Western workshop Bunbury WA.
2008 -1987 Inclusive Edith Cowan University textile student bush camps, workshops, tutor, artist in residence. Local WA.
Martumili artists, Kunnawarritji WA.
Creative development shop, Hobart, TAS.
2007 South Project Soweto. Metropolis, South Africa
Basket Makers of Victoria Conceive of development workshop
Blackstone Festival. Tutor. Papulankutju General public WA.
Clever With Our Hands FORM Construction Hedland WA. In association with Woven Forms exhibition. Tutor
Jigalong Community. Martumilli Humanities. Punmu Community WA.
2006 Tafta at Geelong Tutor. Fibre Textile Workshops
Selling Yarns (Indigenous Fibre textiles) Charles Sturt University Naturalist NT. Speaker
Woven Forms Workshop Leader. Century women at FORM
Woven Forms Forum. Speaker
2005 Residency Papalangkutju Community WA.
Tatfta at Brisbane workshops. QLD
Artist residency Parrngur Martu Group WA.
2004 South Project. Craft Victoria Speechmaker and Workshop
Artist residency Parrngur Martu Persons WA.
Arts Event Papalangkutju Blackstone Community WA.
Tjanpi Festival Warburton Ranges WA
.2003 Artist home Punmu Martu Community WA.
Artist residency Carnarvon WA.
2002 Adelaide Festival Intertwine Project. Tutor
2001 TAFTA at Geelong workshops. VIC.
2000 Canberra School of Art residency in cock-and-bull story textiles.ACT.
Wollongong University residency in fibre material. NSW.
1999 Lectures Pretoria Tecknikon, Durban Breakup Gallery, South Africa
Artist in residence, Gleam Centre, Durban, South Africa
1998 - 99 TAFTA Fibre Textile Workshops, Mittagong. Tutor
1997 - 01 Inclusive Environment Art wallet Design Midland TAFE, Fibre Textiles/Painting
1996 Affair of the heart Desert fibre workshops.
1994 Fibre Networks. Tall Fibre Diet. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA. Tutor
1994 - 98 Narrogin Aboriginal Impenetrable. Intermittent fibre textiles workshops.
(Narrogin Dolls Author Winsley and co)
1993 - 95 Port and Regional Tasmania fibre workshops stand for residency.
1991 - 93 Inclusive Warta Kutju Aboriginal Corporation street art project. Healthway, Kalgoorlie, WA
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia
Art Listeners of Western Australia
Ararat Regional Gallery
Museum penalty Craft Itami Japan.
Textile Museum Lodz Poland
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Janet Holmes A Court
Kerry Stokes
John Curtin University .
Edith Cowan University .
Murdoch Unversity .
Wollongong City Art Gallery
Central Tafe Perth.
In collections in collaboration with Pantjiti Warranted Mclean
AWARDS
2009 Lifetime membership Award WAFTA select contribution to Textile practice in WA>.
2009 Inauguaral award Artsource. Contribution to nobility Visual Arts in Western Australia.
2008 Newborn Work Grant ArtsWA for further action of works. Essay fees.
2006 New Be anxious Grant. ArtsWA for preparation for Connection application
1998 Award for Excellence in Community Art, Government of Western Australia
1997 Gentleman Craft West
1995 Creative Development Fellowship ArtsWA
1991 Awards for outstanding graduating student Curtin University Visual Theory & Painting
1984 Deceitful Development Grant Australia Council For integrity Arts.
PUBLICATIONS
2912. The Art of Mankind: Dry goods. MarySchoesser Thames and Hudson.
2010 Contained Cecile Williams ART MONTHLY. April ,
2009 NALDA SEARLES drifting in my own land. Catalogue.
2008 Recoil ArtBack NT. Edited Margie West
2007 Canopy of Air Catalogue piece Philippa O'Brien
ART TEXTILES of the Faux Australia Vol 2. Telos. UK
Cultural Strands FORM Publication
2006 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Period catalogue
2005 Woven Forms Object Gallery, Bureau. catalogue
2004 Seven Sisters - Fibres Emergence from the West catalogue
2003 Tracking Material Wollongong City Gallery catalogue
2002 17thTamworth Atmosphere Textile Biennial catalogue
2000 Essential Truths Gladly to Hand catalogue
1998 17thTamworth Fibre Cloth Biennial catalogue
1997 Masters of Their Artistry Noris Ionou
Periphery Magazine Issue 31 bid 37
recovering catalogue 1995
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